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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
\"In this debut memoir, Jan Redford grows from a nomadic rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, a nomadic climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Jan finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Jan finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger and climbs distant peaks, Jan tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Jan's telling of adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her memoir of learning to climb, and of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow\"--provided by Amazon.com.
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In defence of Pentecostals
We Christians are flawed human beings and, like any group, we sometimes are selfish or unkind or just stupid. And we make many mistakes in our attempts to follow Christ's teachings. I am sorry that [Jan Redford] was left in a disappointed state. I too have been disappointed, in myself and in my fellow believers, from time to time. But there is another side.
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MMA a Hit With Internet Generation
\"Boxing isn't the biggest, baddest sport on the block anymore, and it hasn't been for years,\" said Jim Genia, 41, the author of \"Raw Combat, the Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts.\" Today, he said, MMA is \"the one sporting endeavor that encapsulates what it means to be a warrior.\" \"I would say that if boxing is the sweet science, then MMA is the complete science,\" said Chris Jones, a 19-year-old student at Pasco-Hernando Community College in Dade City. \"It's all aspects of the fight. It's a full fight. It's a real fight.\" Earlier this year, MTV broadcast \"Caged,\" a reality series that followed the lives of aspiring cage fighters in small-town Louisiana. Chuck Liddell, the sport's first breakout star, now retired, has made cameo appearances as himself on \"Entourage\" and \"Hawaii Five-O.\"
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Mixed martial arts catches on with the Internet generation
\"Boxing isn't the biggest, baddest sport on the block anymore, and it hasn't been for years,\" said Jim Genia, 41, the author of \"Raw Combat, the Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts.\" Today, he said, MMA is \"the one sporting endeavor that encapsulates what it means to be a warrior.\" \"People who don't know these sports very well think their fans must be these kind of crazed, people-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown, violent kind of thing,\" he said. But the students he sees who are most interested in the sport \"tend to have really good grade-point averages and be really fine students,\" he said. \"This is not something that smart young people look down their noses at.\" Earlier this year, MTV broadcast \"Caged,\" a reality series that followed the lives of aspiring cage fighters in small-town Louisiana. Chuck Liddell, the sport's first breakout star, now retired, has made cameo appearances as himself on \"Entourage\" and \"Hawaii Five-O.\"
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Who is the real Christian? Series: Faith: Lost And Found
I couldn't bring one sheep to the Lord. I felt like a complete failure, so I threw myself harder at God's feet. I got baptized in the Holy Spirit; I knelt and babbled in tongues with tears of joy streaming down my face, until someone carried me back to my seat because I couldn't straighten my legs. I belted out songs of praise, sobbing and waving my arms in the air. I lay my hands on a boy with a dislocated shoulder at a healing session, and yelled, \"Praise the Lord!\" when he took off his sling and held it above his head. [Laura] attended a few meetings, but it dampened my style having her around. I couldn't get into praising the Lord in my typical fashion, because I suddenly saw myself through her eyes, and it looked weird. I started to resent her, until one day, sitting on the floor in the hall by our lockers she made me swear to God not to tell, then blurted out a secret. Laura's father had raped her. Repeatedly, since she was in Grade 2. Not just Laura, but her sister Cindy. He had stopped a few years earlier, but now her youngest sister was going into Grade 1, and Laura knew her father was watching her. We sat side-by-side, and cried behind our hair. We were 14 years old. So I prayed. I tried to get Laura to pray with me, but she'd lost all interest in having her soul saved; her needs were more immediate. When God failed to swoop down from the sky and gather my friend in His arms, and the secret became unbearable, I confided in my mother. She immediately went to Social Services, got the three sisters out of their home and Laura moved into my bedroom for the next two years. I found out years later that Mom put the money she received for foster parenting into a bank account for Laura.
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Nearly 1 in 10 Alberta men say hitting women is okay
\"This is first study of its kind that has been done in Alberta and I believe in the rest of the country,\" Ian Large, vice-president for the Alberta branch of Leger Marketing, told the Star Wednesday. \"I think that is very troubling, and as a mother of a 9-year-old, I want us to do better as a community,\" she said. \"We have to start saying to people that this behaviour is inappropriate ... It's not acceptable in Alberta in 2012.\" 14 per cent agreed that women often say \"no\" when they mean \"yes.\"
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